Will there every be another computer like the amiga?
Depends what you want? If you want an expensive proprietary platform that is straddled with legacy compatability issues, I hope not.
I much prefer today's computing world of inexpensive and plentiful hardware and a choice of powerful Os's (some of which are free) to that of the late 80's. My memory of the past when I had to save for months and months to get my first Amiga. Now you can have a powerful system for next to nothing if you know where to look.
Custom chips are very overrated, take current gen' consoles as an example; Questionable performance lead for the first 3 months of their lives then quickly surpassed by "off the shelf" components. Later in it's life, the Amiga was "stuck" with it's custom architecture while inexpensive mass-marketed open-platform technology left it in the dust.
No-one "bangs the metal" anymore, it's too complex. When Sony developed the PS3's cell architecture they were thinking about the "potential" of low level coding, but all that got them is massively longer software development times for marginal performance improvements. Ultra optimising code is like tail chasing in the modern computing age, when the same performance gains got from months of code optimisation can be delivered on newer hardware sooner for less money and effort.
